Which tissue makes up the husk of coconut?
The husk of coconut is made of sclerenchymatous tissue.
Diagrammatically show the difference between the three types of muscle fibres.
What does a neuron look like?
Draw a labelled diagram of a neuron.
Complete the table:
Give three features of cardiac muscles.
Where is apical meristem found?
What are the functions of the stomata?
How many types of elements together make up the xylem tissue? Name them.
What is a tissue?
Name the following.
(a) Tissue that forms the inner lining of our mouth.
(b) Tissue that connects muscle to bone in humans.
(c) Tissue that transports food in plants.
(d) Tissue that stores fat in our body.
(e) Connective tissue with a fluid matrix.
(f) Tissue present in the brain.
Which of the following has more inertia: (a) a rubber ball and a stone of the same size? (b) a bicycle and a train? (c) a five-rupees coin and a one-rupee coin?
State the universal law of gravitation.
Which of the following are matter?
Chair, air, love, smell, hate, almonds, thought, cold, cold-drink, smell of perfume.
A force of 7 N acts on an object. The displacement is, say 8 m, in the direction of the force (Fig. 11.3). Let us take it that the force acts on the object through the displacement. What is the work done in this case?
What is meant by a pure substance?
How does the sound produced by a vibrating object in a medium reach your ear?
In a reaction, 5.3 g of sodium carbonate reacted with 6 g of ethanoic acid. The products were 2.2 g of carbon dioxide, 0.9 g water and 8.2 g of sodium observations are in agreement with the law of conservation of mass.
sodium carbonate + ethanoic acid → sodium ethanoate + carbon dioxide + water
What are canal rays?
State any two conditions essential for good health.
How is our atmosphere different from the atmospheres on Venus and Mars?
A train is travelling at a speed of 90 km h-1. Brakes are applied so as to produce a uniform acceleration of – 0.5 m s-2. Find how far the train will go before it is brought to rest.
Summarise the rules for writing of distribution of electrons in various shells for the first eighteen elements.
Name the three sub-atomic particles of an atom.
You find your mass to be 42 kg on a weighing machine. Is your mass more or less than 42 kg?
The volume of 50 g of a substance is 20 cm3. If the density of water is 1 g cm-3, will the substance float or sink?
On what bases are plants and animals put into different categories?
A racing car has a uniform acceleration of 4 m s-2. What distance will it cover in 10 s after start?
Explain the basis for grouping organisms into five kingdoms.
What is the nature of the distance-time graphs for uniform and non-uniform motion of an object?
Gravitational force acts on all objects in proportion to their masses. Why then, a heavy object does not fall faster than a light object?